HC seeks details on school buildings
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 12
The Delhi High Court today asked the city government to file details of how much money was spent during the past four years after it took serious note of the non-utilisation of funds for construction of school buildings in the Capital.

A Bench comprising Justice Anil Dev Singh and Justice Mukul Mudgal directed the Delhi Government counsel to submit by September 16 complete details of the budgetary allocation for school buildings since 1998, how much money was actually spent and how many additional rooms were built.

The court also sought from the state education director and the public works department details about the requirements of new school buildings and additional rooms.

The direction was issued during the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting the problem of a government school in a relocated colony where over 700 primary school students did not have proper building facilities.

The petitioner produced before the Court on September 1, 2000, a letter of Principal Secretary (Education, Languages, Art and Culture) of Delhi Government to the Secretary PWD, which stated that budgetary allocation for school buildings were “surrendered” by the Department while there was a “back-log” of over 2,100 rooms in various schools till that year.

The Principal Secretary in his latter had emphasised that the PWD should ensure complete utilisation of Rs 130 crore allocated for school building during 2000-01 as it could only construct 650 rooms during the previous year.

Special DD programme on martyrs
Our Correspondent

New Delhi, August 12
Students from Salwan Public School, Gurgaon, are going to present special programmes on DD Bharti on account of Independence Day.

The students along with the parents and teachers will present an interactive programme on the theme, “Have we betrayed our martyrs?” on August 15. The programme will have the children questioning whether the present generation has lived up to the teachings and followed the path of those who sacrificed their lives fighting for the country’s independence.

On August 16, the students will present a live talk show on how to fight stress and manage time effectively. This programme, “Too much to do and too little time” will counsel students on how to effectively use their time.

The ‘Academic helpline’ to be telecast on August 17 will help science students know more about the latest trends in the new science curriculum. Also questions related to various phenomena and mysteries will be answered.

On August 23, the students along with the teachers and the parents will discuss ‘Sports Management’. They will question whether the various sports bodies are successful in actually spotting and nurturing talent and what should be done to improve the sports management by way of providing better infrastructure, coaching and proper encouragement at appropriate levels.

These programmes have been specially produced for DD Bharti and will be telecast between 6 and 7 p.m.